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So I think that China is going to want to corner Trump and put him especially during the tariff situation. They're going to want to corner and embarrass Trump by saying hard no, we're not selling it. So if you want to put it out of business, that will be you, Trump, putting it out of business. So explain that to all the small businesses who go out of business because they lose their TikTok access. It would be a nightmare. So I feel like Trump may have accidentally walked into a trap that he set himself. How in the world does he get out of this? So that's my prediction. China will be a hard no on the sale and they'd rather embarrass Trump into being the one who kills TikTok. I think that's where it's heading.

Apparently in New York State there was some kind of a big strike by the corrections professionals and so there weren't enough people to operate the jails. So what they're going to do is release a whole bunch of prisoners. Not the most dangerous ones, but they're going to release some massive amount of prisoners that should be in jail just by saying they don't have staff to manage it. So I guess the corrections officers have been on strike since February. They don't like the forced overtime and tough working conditions. To which I say, why did you ask for a job in a prison? Why? Why? Imagine asking for a job in a prison and then complaining about the difficult working conditions. What did you think it would be like when you decided to work in a prison? Did you think you'd have a nice cubicle and a window view? It seems to me that job would be the hardest job of all jobs, you know, and also the most dangerous. So I certainly understand why they'd go on strike. I just don't understand why they take the job in the first place.

Well, meanwhile, Project Veritas has a new undercover video involving NASA and the State Department in which the employees are saying that they're not getting rid of DEI, they're just rebranding it and they're going to defy Trump's orders on DEI being illegal. So they said they cancelled their DEI stuff, but people just did it and called it something else. They work around the rules. What do you think's going to happen? Do you think that the Department of Justice, I guess it would be them, Pam Bondi, would come after them when the undercover investigation shows that they were just lying and they were just continuing to racially discriminate? At what point do you go to jail for it? Because it's illegal. If you're doing a scheme so that you can continue illegally discriminating against white people, is there no jail for that? At what point is it jailable? Maybe is it a civil, you know, you get sued for it, you lose your funding. What exactly is the penalty for that? Because if there's no penalty, nothing's going to happen. But apparently racism is very important to NASA and the State Department, at least parts of it.

Well, according to The Hill, Tim Walz's daughter has decided not to go to grad school. It turns out the daughter might be as dumb as Tim Walz. So listen to her reason for not going to grad school. And she announces on TikTok that she's not going to go to grad school because she says there's a lack of support, at least in the school that she wanted to go to, for the right to protest at higher education institutions. She said, "I applied for one school. I kind of had my heart set on it. I am not going to name the institution, but given the recent events, I'm not going to give my money, go into debt for, or support institutions that do not support students and the right to protest and speak out for their communities." So that's why she's not going to graduate school. So she's destroyed her own career because she thinks she doesn't have free speech on a college campus. I'm not entirely sure this was about free speech, was it? I thought it was about gross antisemitism. Was anybody complaining about free speech? Because I don't know that free speech protects you from a level of antisemitism that pretty much guarantees there's going to be violence attached. I don't know. Tim Walz's daughter. I don't think you made a good decision there.

Well, let's check in with the Department of Imaginary Concerns. As you know, Democrats have a lot of drama and a lot of imaginary concerns. So we're going to check in on those. Imaginary concern number one, Elon Musk is not elected. That is an imaginary concern. Now, it's true he's not elected. You know what else is true? There are only two people in the executive branch who are elected. Just two. But I haven't given you the percentage yet. Remember, a number without a percentage is misleading. But there are about 2.4 million federal government workers. I think those are just within the president's domain. So of the millions, let's just say a few million. Of the millions of workers, only two of them are elected. The rest are appointed or in some cases Congress had to agree. But the vast majority of people who work for the executive branch, the vast majority like 99.9999% are all unelected. So the unelected claim is both true, but it belongs in the domain of the imaginary concerns. We'll put that with things that could have happened but didn't.

Anyway, here's another one. There's a Yale professor who said, I think this was on MSNBC. They're interviewing a Yale professor who's going to leave the United States for Canada because he fears that Trump is implementing fascism and he wants to highlight it, make a point. So he's a professor of fascism. So he's a scholarly expert on fascism. Now, what happens if you're a scholarly expert on fascism? Do you notice a lot of it? Yes, you do. What would happen if you were a scholarly expert on ghosts? Would you see more ghosts than other people? Yes, you would. Suppose you were a scholarly expert on narcissists. Do you think you'd see more of them than other people? Yes, you would. You'd see them everywhere. So whatever you're the scholarly expert on, you're just going to sort of be primed to see it everywhere.

But what examples do you think are there? Because you've been hearing it too, right? Trump's a fascist. Trump's a fascist. What exactly are the examples? So I went to Grok to find out what Trump is doing specifically that his critics would call fascism. And here's what Grok told me fits under that category of fascism. And what I want you to look for is, is this the sort of thing that looks like confirmation bias? Meaning if you were the Yale fascism scholar expert, you could interpret all of this as fascism. But if you were not crazy, you could interpret it as just ordinary stuff. All right?

So the first indication that Trump is a fascist is his America First policy. If you happen to be the Yale fascism scholar expert, well, that's a pretty big signal that you're going to be a fascist. If you were a normal person who's not bat crazy, you'd say, "Oh, you mean like every country does?" Is there a country that doesn't put themselves first? Well, maybe Great Britain. Maybe France and a little bit of Germany at that point. But don't you think that countries in general should manage their own situation first with an eye to the fact that they have to work productively with other countries? So taking care of America first and doing things like making sure that our tariff situation is at least reciprocal. Is that what makes a fascist? Only if that's how you're primed. If you're not primed to see it, it just looks like ordinary. The most obvious ordinary thing that the president has the country in mind first.

Here's another one. Trump pardoned the January 6ers, which would suggest that he is in support of violent insurrectionists. But that's just a media narrative. It's not true. What's true is it was a protest. It's not true they were insurrectionists. So if you believe they were insurrectionists and he pardoned them, well, I could see how you might think, well, that's a little too far. But if you happen to know that the media and the Democrats cooked up this horrific scheme to hunt and jail Republicans, then you would say, "Oh, well, this is justice." What part of justice is fascism? And has not Trump also pardoned over time a lot of other people who were not a bunch of white Republicans? He has. So looking at pardons, because pardons are always sketchy, you know, every president who does pardons does at least a few that you say, "What?" So pardons, I think that's a crazy standard.

How about strict immigration policies? Again, this is from Grok trying to give you examples of how Trump is a fascist or his critics would say it. Grok is now saying it. Strict immigration policies. That's just common sense. That's literally just protecting your country from criminal Venezuelan gangs and degradation of the workforce in the United States or at least the pay for it. How in the world is that fascist to not let other people come in and take your stuff?

Then Grok says Trump has a rhetoric that talks about toughness like break those heads and you know we might involve the military to do this but that's just talk and it's just how it gets reframed. If you said to yourself that's just how he talks it means nothing. If you say to yourself, well, that's the only people who talk like